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Hosea 7:9

Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength,

but they don’t even know it.

Their hair is gray,

but they don’t realize they’re old and weak.

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Hosea 7:9 — The New International Version (NIV)

Foreigners sap his strength,

but he does not realize it.

His hair is sprinkled with gray,

but he does not notice.

Hosea 7:9 — English Standard Version (ESV)

Strangers devour his strength,

and he knows it not;

gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,

and he knows it not.

Hosea 7:9 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not:

Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Hosea 7:9 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

Aliens have devoured his strength,

But he does not know it;

Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,

Yet he does not know it.

Hosea 7:9 — New Century Version (NCV)

Foreign nations have eaten up his strength,

but he doesn’t know it.

Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man,

but he doesn’t know it.

Hosea 7:9 — American Standard Version (ASV)

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

Hosea 7:9 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

Hosea 7:9 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Foreigners are using up your strength, but you don’t realize it. 

You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you don’t realize it. 

Hosea 7:9 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Foreigners consume his strength,

but he does not notice.

Even his hair is streaked with gray,

but he does not notice.

Hosea 7:9 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Foreigners devour his strength,

but he does not know it;

gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,

but he does not know it.

Hosea 7:9 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Foreigners devour his strength,

and he does not know it;

mold is also sprinkled upon him,

and he does not know it.

Hosea 7:9 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

People from other lands make them weaker and weaker.

But they don’t realize it.

Their hair is becoming gray.

But they don’t even notice it.

Hosea 7:9 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

Strangers devour his strength,

Yet he does not know it;

Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,

Yet he does not know it.


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